Zapata, voces y testimonios

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Sobre pocos de los temas relacionados con la historia de la Guerra Civil española de 1936-1939 se habrá escrito más que sobre el papel que desempeñó en ella el Partido Comunista. Sus apologistas han celebrado su contribución a la resistencia republicana; sus críticos le suponen empeñado en establecer un régimen totalitario subordinado a los intereses soviéticos y le acusan de haber impedido que se desarrollase una revolución social que hubiera podido cambiar el rumbo de la guerra. Unos y otros, sin embargo, suelen limitarse a especulaciones con escaso fundamento documental, taradas ...

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

La Edad Media ha sido considerada un periodo de estancamiento del saber, sombrío y cruel. Jesús Callejo desmonta esta imagen con un apasionante repaso de la época: desde las bibliotecas perdidas y los textos malditos, a los increíbles avances tecnológicos como las lámparas perpetuas, los espejos mágicos y originales aparatos voladores pasando por los diabólicos autómatas que fueron ocultados a los ojos del gran público.